“The mission revolutionized the way we think about comets and raised all sorts of questions we still have to answer,” said chief mission scientist Mike A’Hearn of the University of Maryland.

Mission controllers last radioed the spacecraft on August 8, after which communications were lost, according to a statement from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. After a month of attempts to restore communications through the NASA Deep Space Network, the controllers have declared the mission “lost,” concluding that a computer glitch likely doomed the spacecraft.

“Basically, it was a Y2K problem, where some software didn’t roll over the calendar date correctly,” said A’Hearn. The spacecraft’s fault-protection software (ironically enough) would have misread any date after August 11, 2013, he said, triggering an endless series of computer reboots aboard Deep Impact.

Despite repeated attempts to send corrective commands, the spacecraft likely lost its bearings and failed to point its solar cell wings toward the sun, A’Hearn said, causing a catastrophic loss of power.

Comets Now Better Understood

Deep Impact had been enjoying a surprisingly long second act after its 2005 rendezvous with Tempel 1 and the two years of data analysis that followed the smash-up. “I considered everything afterwards as gravy,” A’Hearn said.

Before Deep Impact, comet scientists had a relatively simple picture of comets as crusty, dirty snowballs from beyond Pluto. After the 2005 encounter, A’Hearn said, scientists understood that space weather reshaped comet surfaces, that comet tails contain dry ice and water, and that comets originated close to the sun at the dawn of the solar system.

The findings played into scientific discussions of how water delivered by comet impacts may have filled the oceans of the early Earth more than four billion years ago.

“I’m a little biased, but I think the taxpayers saw very good value from this mission,” A’Hearn says.

As always, what is it that Never AStraight Answer are not revealing to us?! Ison smashing into the sun causing massive solar flares wrecking untold electrical catastrophe here on Earth?! Guess we’ll have to wait and see!!

According to NASA, Jack Scudder—a researcher at the University of Iowa—has found “hidden portals on Earth’s magnetic field [that] open and close dozens of times each day.” Some of them are open for long periods of time.

Scudder says that these portals “create an uninterrupted path leading from our own planet to the sun’s atmosphere 93 million miles away.”

Called X-points or electron diffusion regions, they are located “a few tens of thousands of kilometers from Earth. The portals are created through a process of magnetic reconnection in which lines of magnetic force from both celestial bodies mingle and criss-cross through space. The criss-crossing creates these x-points.

The portals are “invisible, unstable and elusive,” opening and closing without any warning. When they open, however, they are capable of transporting energetic particles at high speed from the Sun’s atmosphere’s to Earth’s, causing geomagnetic storms.

There’s a way to locate them and Scudder has found it. He uses data by NASA’s THEMIS spacecraft and the ESA’s Cluster probes, following crucial clues found in the data from NASA’s Polar spacecraft, which studied Earth’s magnetosphere in the late 1990s:

Using Polar data, we have found five simple combinations of magnetic field and energetic particle measurements that tell us when we’ve come across an X-point or an electron diffusion region. A single spacecraft, properly instrumented, can make these measurements.

Above: This is how the magnetic portals look on the data gathered by NASA’s Polar spacecraft.

NASA is getting ready such a spacecraft in their Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission. A whole squadron of them: four ships that will be deployed around Earth and “surround the portals to observe how they work.” The spacecraft will launch in 2014. [NASA]

An estimated 20,000 New Age believers who say the “upside down” mountain is home to aliens who will rescue them from an impending apocalypse have saturated a small French commune near the foot of the picturesque Pic de Bugarach.

The Independent reports the growing flock, who locals refer to as “esoterics,” believe the world will come to an end on December 21st, 2012. They also reportedly believe that the unique mountain is in fact home to a race of alien beings that will emerge to rescue the gathered humans and transport them to a new civilization.

Pic de Bugarach has long been famous because rock samples taken from its peak are actually older than points measured at lower elevation. Scientists say that is because when the 1,230 meter mountain erupted its peak flipped upside down before crashing back down upon the mountain’s base. The mountain is said to have played a role in inspiring everything from Jules Verne’s “Journey to the Center of the Earth,” to Steven Spielberg’s “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.”

The BBC reports that the French government is concerned about mass suicides taking place near Pic de Bugarach in advance of the December 21 date and that there have been reports of “strange rituals” taking place there as well.

Last year, CNN filed a report on the apocalyptic rumors surrounding Pic de Bugarach:

The Independent notes some other rumors surrounding Pic de Bugarach, which included speculation that both Israel’s Mossad and Nazis have both performed “mysterious” excavation digs there.

“The apocalypse we believe in is the end of a certain world and the beginning of another,” one of the New Age pilgrims going only by the name “Jean,” tells the paper. “A new spiritual world. The year 2012 is the end of a cycle of suffering. Bugarach is one of the major chakras of the earth, a place devoted to welcoming the energies of tomorrow.”

Up to 100,000 visitors are expected to flock to the scene before December 21.

Update 3/20/2012, 7:30 PM Alaska time–I just received this information by email from a reader. This source believes that the “earth shattering event” my report refers to, could be a coming EARTHQUAKE on the West Coast in Pacific Rim states. And here is a map showing the west coast regions that can be affected. Today, March 20, a 7.4 earthquake occurred near Acapulco on Mexico’s west coast. And today in Ecuador, the Tungurahua volcano was rocked by major explosions. Both are a part of the Pacific rim “ring of fire.”Below the map is the information I received today:

REPORT UPDATE:

Earthquake Warning For Pacific Rim

West Coast States USA

March 22, 2012 @ 4:58:34 UTCMarch 21, 2012 @ 11:58:34 pm EDTThe historical and geological records say the Earth and particularly the Pacific Ring of Fire
will experience a 9+ magnitude quake event on March 22, 2012 @ 4:58:34 UTC where Earth
axis is expected to shift 5+ inches. Earth experienced a similar event on February 27, 2010
and March 11, 2011 and we expect the 188-day Cycle Pattern to continue. Everyone living
in a seismic zone should pay careful attention to events transpiring around March 22, 2012
along with people living near the coasts.

END OF UPDATE
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-WARNING FROM SPECIAL FORCES ABOUT MARCH DISASTER-

The source of this information must remain anonymous. It was leaked out only recently. This kind of information lines up with what I have been warning my readers for a long time is coming to America…and NOT BY ACCIDENT BUT BY PLAN!

Remember that none of their NWO plans are written in stone, however…and that PRAYER CHANGES THINGS! Therefore read and PRAY.-Pamela Rae Schuffert
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“…I have a Special Forces Friend who lives in Kalispell, Montana. He just called me with major news. He has a Friend who works in the Prison System in Montana. They have been told by Big Gov to be ready for an event to take place sometime between March 13-23. This event will be very earth shattering. They have been told to stock up on 6 Months worth of Food, Diesel, Medical Supplies, Water and other needed supplies! This SF Friend is not a Person who gets His feathers ruffled. He was shocked to say the least…”
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One important fact stands out clearly in this leaked memo: the very fact that BIG GOVERNMENT is providing prior warning of this “earth shattering” catastrophe, provides us with damning and undeniable evidence that this “disaster” is yet another INSIDE JOB! (gov/mil “black op” or “false flag” terrorism.)

My burning question now is, is it therefore designed to bring MARTIAL LAW irrevocably? If so, what are they going to pull off? “THE NEXT BIG ONE” (like their previous first “big one” of “9/11”) that we have been warned was coming?

More PROJECT HAARP military engineered “disasters” or perhaps a HAARP triggered earthquake? Especially since the memo mentions this would be “…an earth shattering event” ???

Or will it be MISSILES originating from our very own bases, re-directed at INTERNAL TARGETS, as Pentagon and military sources warned me directly would be coming, tied in again with a NWO/martial agenda?

And the list goes on and on of the black ops they have in place for their NWO agenda.

Let’s go a step further. This warning originates in MONTANA. In the above leaked memo, Montanans were warned about a calamity coming and to stockpile emergency supplies for up to 6 months. This memo did not specify if this event would be local to the MONTANA region only, or affect all Americans nationwide.

The greatest threat Montanans face as far as physical disasters go, is from the YELLOWSTONE SUPERVOLCANO. Having investigated in Montana since 1997, I know alot about NWO/martial law agendas already in place in that freedom-lovers state.

One of the more bizarre pieces of information came from 3 military sources, one Pentagon, that I met with personally.

All three sources warned me of the military planting powerful explosives in various locations throughout Yellowstone National Park. My Pentagon source, Al Cuppet, admitted that this even included a Russian ICBM missile. (And believe me, I could never make up such information if I tried! I was shocked beyond words when I began recieving this information.) Another one of my sources was retired USAF Field McConnell, well known 9/11 truth researcher. The third was a young military man from Bozeman who knew some of Yellowstone’s dark secrets that I also knew.

But why? It would be impossible to deliberately trigger the Yellowstone super volcano by such means. BUT you can use these to create underground explosions in order to SIMULATE the beginning rumblings indicating that she is about to BLOW!

This would then form the basis for declaring REGIONAL MARTIAL LAW. The US gov/mil desperately WANTS regional martial law declared there, because of the high concentration of self-declared “NWO PATRIOT RESISTERS” armed with weapons, ammo and emergency supplies, plus determination to fight the NWO agenda they hate with a passion.

After 15 years of research across America, I have concluded that the Montana/Wyoming/Idaho region has the highest concentration of dedicated freedom fighters, more willing to sacrifice and more prepared to die to keep America free from NWO encroachment, than that any other region in North America.

You see, if regional martial law and a state of emergency were declared there (Montana/Wyoming/Idaho) they can then start bringing in the UN/NATO (NWO)military forces to control the region, seizing weapons from all suspected NWO resisters, arresting people on various gov/mil lists, and sending them to the FEMA camps via the railway system and the many prisoner boxcars with shackles that are firmly entrenched there.

And then there is the potential for the New Madrid earthquake to occur ( and military HAARP equipment can certainly trigger earthquakes.) This would be “earth-shaking” as well. California has been receiving more earthquake warning tremors as well.

Finally, military sources have warned us to expect nuclear strikes on AMERICAN soil because of our reckless foreign policies in the Middle East. Most recently, Obama signed a Presidential Executive Order declaring WAR WITH IRAN. This opens the deadly doors of PRE-EMPTIVE MILITARY STRIKES (nuclear) ON AMERICAN SOIL by allies of Iran. China relies heavily on Iran for oil, and China has lots of nasty chemical/biological nuclear warhead missiles in her arsenals.

Anything is possible at this point

As I stated previously, PRAY!

And then go and do the practical. Purchase your survival supplies WHILE YOU CAN! Who can really know if something catastrophic will or won’t happen during the above stated time period? BUT we do know such things will come to North America eventually. It is always best to be prepared for ALL possible scenarios during the tense hour in which we live.

One important final word :Because of government spying on all communications across America, they become aware immediately when information like this starts spreading like wildfire across the Internet. And because Big Brother does NOT want the truth to be known by the American people about their complicity in such black ops, for damage control they will often change planned dates to future times, long after people have forgotten leaked info such as the above.

In case nothing seemingly ever happens by the 23rd, REMEMBER: POSTPONEMENT of their dark agendas is NEVER CANCELLATION of their agendas!